[Elecraft] Wayne's Story - "On Second Thought, I'll Take The Stairs

[Jim Ewing]

Relevant to what Wayne said is this quote from Pirsig:

*“That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel.
There's no part in it, no shape in it, that is not out of someone's mind
[...] I've noticed that people who have never worked with steel have
trouble seeing this—that the motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon.*
They associate metal with given shapes—pipes, rods, girders, tools,
parts—all of them fixed and inviolable., and think of it as primarily
physical. But a person who does machining or foundry work or forger work or
welding sees "steel" as having no shape at all. Steel can be any shape you
want if you are skilled enough, and any shape but the one you want if you
are not. Shapes, like this tappet, are what you arrive at, what you give to
the steel. Steel has no more shape than this old pile of dirt on the engine
here. *These shapes are all of someone's mind. That's important to see.*
The steel? Hell, even the steel is out of someone's mind. There's no steel
in nature. Anyone from the Bronze Age could have told you that. All nature
has is a potential for steel. There's nothing else there.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry
Into Values <https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/175720>

So, it's important to see a main reason why these radios are so excellent;
because they come from the minds of people who can express their love and
talent for cw in radio circuits, just as eloquently as Wayne does in his
story.

Jim N4TMM